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In this paper, scheduling problems of aircraft minimizing the total delays on a same runway and on dual runways are studied. In contrast to the algorithms based on mixed-integer optimization models in existing works, where the optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Peng Lin , Haopeng Yang

Guaranteeing stringent data freshness for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in shared spectrum forces a critical trade-off between two operational costs: the UAV's own energy consumption and the occupation of terrestrial channel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Bowen Li , Jiping Luo , Themistoklis Charalambous , Nikolaos Pappas

Efficient path planning for autonomous mobile robots is a critical problem across numerous domains, where optimizing both time and energy consumption is paramount. This paper introduces a novel methodology that considers the dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Víctor C. da S. Campos , Armando A. Neto , Douglas G. Macharet

Ride-pooling services, such as UberPool and Lyft Shared Saver, enable a single vehicle to serve multiple customers within one shared trip. Efficient path-planning algorithms are crucial for improving the performance of such systems. For…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Pengbo Zhu , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Nikolas Geroliminis

The Orienteering Problem (OP) is a well-studied routing problem that has been extended to incorporate uncertainties, reflecting stochastic or dynamic travel costs, prize-collection costs, and prizes. Existing approaches may, however, be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Qiuchen Qian , Yanran Wang , David Boyle

Besides air pollution and commuter stress, traffic congestions also lead to loss of productivity, increase in delay, vehicle operating cost, and accidents. To assuage these issues, several logistics companies are planning to launch air…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-19 Suchithra Rajendran

The performance of anytime algorithms can be improved by simultaneously solving several instances of algorithm-problem pairs. These pairs may include different instances of a problem (such as starting from a different initial state),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-28 L. Finkelstein , S. Markovitch , E. Rivlin

The Ride-Pool Matching Problem (RMP) is central to on-demand ride-pooling services, where vehicles must be matched with multiple requests while adhering to service constraints such as pickup delays, detour limits, and vehicle capacity. Most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hao Jiang , Yixing Xu , Pradeep Varakantham

In this paper, we propose a method to replan coverage paths for a robot operating in an environment with initially unknown static obstacles. Existing coverage approaches reduce coverage time by covering along the minimum number of coverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Megnath Ramesh , Frank Imeson , Baris Fidan , Stephen L. Smith

This study investigates the theoretical properties of a departure time choice problem considering commuters' heterogeneity with respect to the value of schedule delay in corridor networks. Specifically, we develop an analytical method to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Takara Sakai , Takashi Akamatsu , Koki Satsukawa

The well-known Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) aims to reduce the cost of moving goods between several destinations while accommodating constraints like set time windows for certain locations and vehicle capacity.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Gautam Siddharth Kashyap , Alexander E. I. Brownlee , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Karan Malik , Samar Wazir

This paper presents a neural network recommender system algorithm for assigning vehicles to routes based on energy and cost criteria. In this work, we applied this new approach to efficiently identify the most cost-effective medium and…

In this work, we propose a search-based planning method to compute dynamically feasible trajectories for a quadrotor flying in an obstacle-cluttered environment. Our approach searches for smooth, minimum-time trajectories by exploring the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Sikang Liu , Nikolay Atanasov , Kartik Mohta , Vijay Kumar

We consider a vehicle routing problem which seeks to minimize cost subject to service level constraints on several groups of deliveries. This problem captures some essential challenges faced by a logistics provider which operates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Teobaldo Bulhões , Minh Hoàng Hà , Rafael Martinelli , Thibaut Vidal

Optimal transport (OT) distances are finding evermore applications in machine learning and computer vision, but their wide spread use in larger-scale problems is impeded by their high computational cost. In this work we develop a family of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Brahim Khalil Abid , Robert M. Gower

The problem of how to coordinate a large fleet of trucks with given itinerary to enable fuel-efficient platooning is considered. Platooning is a promising technology that enables trucks to save significant amounts of fuel by driving close…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Sebastian van de Hoef , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Path planning is a classic problem for autonomous robots. To ensure safe and efficient point-to-point navigation an appropriate algorithm should be chosen keeping the robot's dimensions and its classification in mind. Autonomous robots use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alka Choudhary

This paper considers a trajectory planning problem for a robot navigating complex terrains, which arises in applications ranging from autonomous mining vehicles to planetary rovers. The problem seeks to find a low-cost dynamically feasible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yilin Cai , Zhongqiang Ren

The Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) is an attractive variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The aim is to select customers and at the same time organize the visits for a vehicle fleet so as to maximize the collected profits and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Racha El-Hajj , Duc-Cuong Dang , Aziz Moukrim

Line planning in public transport is the strategic problem of selecting lines and their operating frequencies. This problem is important as it defines the passenger service, based on available connections and expected travel times, and…